{"id":674394,"date":"2026-03-22T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674394\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:31:11","slug":"nassau-county-touts-crackdown-on-e-bikes-as-nyc-eases-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/674394\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassau County touts crackdown on e-bikes as NYC eases up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Island\u2019s Nassau County is touting<\/a> a controversial major crackdown on e-bikes and scooters just as New York City is easing its traffic laws on the contraptions.<\/p>\n

The county announced earlier this month that it will be banning many of the bikes and scooters, fining their scofflaw riders up to $700 while impounding their vehicles.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to Nassau County Miscellaneous Law Title 61 and VTL Article 34, motorized scooters and Class 2 & 3 e-bikes cannot ride on any Nassau County roadway or property,\u201d Nassau County Police announced on Facebook<\/a> on March 5, referring to the electric bikes, which are equipped with a throttle and reach speeds of up to 28 mph.<\/p>\n

New York City just eased its rules for e-bike riders. DenisProduction.com \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

\u201cWe enforce the law because we care about your safety,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

The move occurred days before New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> announced last week that the Big Apple would be ending its own crackdown and no longer issuing criminal summonses to cyclists for traffic violations, instead treating them like motorists with just tickets.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy ending criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses, we\u2019re ensuring cyclists and e-bike riders \u2014 including those who deliver our food and groceries \u2014 are treated like others on the road,\u201d Mamdani said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nassau County cyclists were incensed over the crackdown affecting them. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you search Nassau County e-scooter and e-bike law, none of this comes up,\u201d local Joseph Taylor told The Post, referring to the statute cited by cops.<\/p>\n

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman\u2019s office did not respond to a Post request for comment about the controversy involving local e-bikes. Dennis A. Clark<\/p>\n

\u201cIt says the rider [must be] 16 or older with a helmet and must follow traffic laws and ride in bike lanes when possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nassau County police announce the ban on Facebook on March 5. Nassau County Police Department<\/p>\n

Long Island\u2019s leading e-bike accident lawyer Daniel Flanzig says the county\u2019s interpretation of the law is wrong. Flanzig & Flanzig<\/p>\n

In addition, state law only grants villages and towns \u2014 not counties \u2014 the authority to regulate their use, according to the law statute itself and the region\u2019s leading e-bike accident lawyer, Daniel Flanzig<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[Nassau County] is citing a section of the law that is inapplicable,\u201d Flanzig told The Post, insisting that riding Class 2 and 3 e-bikes is totally legal within Nassau County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe definition of an e-bike is not open to interpretation, and that\u2019s exactly what they\u2019re doing to enforce this,\u201d Flanzig said.<\/p>\n

County officials did not respond to a Post request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Island\u2019s Nassau County is touting a controversial major crackdown on e-bikes and scooters just as New York…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":674395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5302,22807,79298,6084,5248,7834,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":["post-674394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-bikes","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-citi-bike","tag-long-island","tag-metro","tag-nassau-county","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116274494580729649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}